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      <h1>中国自由软件组织 - 自由龙 - What's bad about</h1>
      <p><strong><a href="#微软">微软</a> | <a href="#Amazon">Amazon</a> | <a href="#海康储存">海康储存</a></strong></p>
      <h2 id="微软">微软</h2>
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    <p><strong>不要使用微软的原因（Copyright (c) 2017 Richard Stallman Verbatim）</strong></p>
    <ul>
      <li>微软正在进行一项专利保护勒索，威胁要起诉自由软件的用户。</li>
      <li>微软诱使用户“升级”到Windows 10。</li>
      <li>如果Microsoft选择不方便的时间来进行更改，则Microsoft Windows 10强制软件更改可能会破坏用户。 由于该文章位于主流媒体中，因此建议仅购买另一台计算机，该计算机可以为主机提供这种特殊形式的功能。 它完全忽略了在PC中安装自由操作系统的可能性-甚至不需要购买新计算机。</li>
      <li>Microsoft平板电脑和手机对应用程序进行检查。</li>
      <li>微软在中国的聊天机器人威胁使用违禁文字进行交流的人。</li>
      <li><p>微软Xbox游戏机记录的用户并有人听这些录音。</p><p>从道德上讲，我认为让人类工人收听和让语音识别系统收听之间没有区别。 两者都侵犯隐私。</p></li>
      <li><p>微软通过破坏大多数投票通过的国家标准组织，通过国际标准组织强制使用了荒谬的“开放”标准OOXML（用于DOCX文件）。</p><p>规范文档太长，以至于其他人很难正确实施它。 当通过通常的方式提交建议的标准时，经验丰富的评估人员出于许多充分的理由而拒绝了该标准。</p><p>Microsoft使用一种特殊的替代程序进行响应，在该程序中，其资金购买了许多投票国的支持，因此绕过了适当的评估并证明可以购买ISO。</p></li>
      <li><p>微软向几乎所有PC制造商施压，要求他们为每台出售的计算机支付Windows许可费用，从而向每个购买者收取Windows许可费用。</p><p>这被讽刺地称为“微软税”。</p><p>（页面上显示的是“ Linux”，实际上是指GNU/Linux操作系统，而不是Linux。）</p><p>这笔费用不会强迫您在PC上运行Windows，但这仍然是不公正的。 避免这种情况的一种方法是购买Windows从未出售过的硬件。</p><p>某些国家/地区制定了法律，要求用户提起诉讼以要求偿还Windows许可证。 行使这项权利很麻烦，但是这样做很有用，因为这会给Microsoft建立的系统施加压力。 但是，仅限于少数几个国家/地区的不便逃生途径的存在对判断微软的做法是不公正且应受到谴责的判断没有影响。</p></li>
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    <center><h2 id="Amazon">Amazon</h2></center>
    <p><strong>不要使用亚马逊的原因（Copyright (c) 2017 Richard Stallman Verbatim）（待翻译）</strong></p>
    <h3 id="size">Size</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon has so much power over the US retail economy that it
	  <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xpgvx/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy">
	    imposes its
	    power over all participants</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	  If it is going to be a monopoly, it should be regulated like other
	  monopolies.  Or perhaps more.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon has
	  <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38807-1-of-every-2-spent-online-goes-to-amazon-can-we-break-the-company-s-stranglehold">so much market share</a> that its sheer size distorts
	  the market.
	</p>
	<p>
	  We should not allow a company to have a share over around
	  10% of any market.  If in a certain field a single dominant
	  company is beneficial for society, that means it is a
	  natural monopoly, and should be served by a regulated
	  utility.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="sabotage">Sabotaging Customers</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon offered a "30-day free trial", and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/04/amazon-prime-free-trial-offer-banned-for-misleading-over-fees">started paid subscriptions
	    automatically</a> at the end of it.
	</p>
	<p>
	  This is clearly an attempt to trick customers &mdash; wrong in all cases
	  no matter how many companies do it.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's persistent blindness to certain fraudulent sales
	  schemes
	  makes it
	  <a href="https://petapixel.com/2017/08/11/fell-victim-1500-used-camera-lens-scam-amazon/">easy
	    for fraudsters</a> to invalidate Amazon's guarantee to
	  purchasers.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazon-returning-faulty-goods-blocked-credit-balance">
	    closes the accounts of customers that send back a
	    substantial fraction of products they buy</a>.  It has the
	  additional effect of stealing any credit balance.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon appears to have cooperated with the US government
	  to <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20150107142335/http://www.storyleak.com/tor-developer-fears-nsa-interception-amazon-purchase">intercept
	    a Thinkpad keyboard purchased by a Tor developer</a>.
	  To install a spy device, presumably.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon
	  <a href="https://www.quora.com/Has-Amazon-slowed-down-their-free-shipping-speed-intentionally">delays order processing</a>
	  for customers that have not paid a subscription fee for "prime"
	  delivery.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="cash">Limiting the use of Cash</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's new grocery stores
	  <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/amazon-go-isnt-trying-to-kill-cashier-jobs-its-after-something-bigger">
	    do not accept cash</a>.  They impose the same surveillance
	  as ordering online from Amazon.
	</p>
	<p>
	  In addition, success of this would mean the loss of
	  thousands of jobs.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="restricting">Restricting and Shafting Customers</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon distributes ebooks in a way that strips users of many freedoms
	  (<a href="/articles/ebooks.pdf">PDF</a> or <a
							href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/the-danger-of-ebooks.html">html</a>).
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's on-line music "sales" have some of the <a
							     href="/internet-music.html"> same problems</a> as the ebooks: users
	  are required to identify themselves and sign a contract that denies
	  them the freedoms they would have with a CD.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li id="1984">
	<p>
	  The Amazon Swindle has a back door that can erase books.  We found
	  out about this when Amazon <a
					href="http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/">remotely
	    erased thousands of copies of 1984</a>.  In response to criticism,
	  Amazon promised it would never do this again unless <em>ordered to by
	    the state</em>, which I find not very comforting.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Amazon did not keep that promise.  In 2012 it <a
							   href="http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html">wiped
	    a user's Kindle and deleted her account</a>, then offered her
	  kafkaesque "explanations".
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  The Swindle has a universal back door through which that
	  Amazon can forcibly change the software.  This is called
	  <a
	     href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200774090">"auto-update"</a>.
	  It puts the user helplessly at Amazon's mercy.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's book recommendations are not based honestly on
	  algorithms that try to figure out what users might like.
	  Publishers <a
			href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/amazon-beware-friendly-internet-giants-google-facebook">
	    pay to have their books promoted this way</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon rents textbooks to students with a requirement not to take them
	  <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/16/amazon-restricts-students-bringing-certain-textbook-rentals-across-state-lines">across
	    state lines</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon turns servile US public libraries into retail agents.
	  Users have to register with Amazon and give their own email addresses.
	  Then they get mail like this.
	</p>

	<pre>
	  Subject:       Your digital library loan expires soon
	  Date:   Sat, 13 Sep 2014 ...
	  From:   digital-noreply@amazon.com
	  To:     LIBRARY-USER'S-EMAIL-ADDRESS



	  Your digital library loan will expire in 3 days

	  Hello LIBRARY-USER'S-NAME
	  Your digital library book will expire in 3 days. If you purchase
	  /BOOK/ from the Kindle Store or borrow it again from your local
	  library, all of your notes and highlights will be preserved.
	  BOOK
	  (Author) AUTHOR
	  &lt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/PAGE&gt;
	</pre>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon "sold" someone Disney Christmas videos (via remote access,
	  not a local copy); subsequently <a
					     href="http://boingboing.net/2013/12/15/amazon-takes-away-access-to-pu.html#more-274290">
	    Amazon, at Disney's command, cut off access for Christmas</a>.  This
	  demonstrates why we should not trust remote hosting for copies of
	  published works.  Insist on having your own copy which is yours.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's service, that offers you an <a
						  href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/11/amazon-autorip-great-service-strings-attached">MP3
	    for CDs you bought there</a>, respects your rights less than ripping
	  the CDs yourself.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jan/19/amazon-marketplace-purchases-not-covered-consumer-credit-act">complex
	    financial arrangements</a> bypass UK credit card consumer protection.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/mar/18/banned-by-amazon-returning-faulty-goods-blocked-credit-balance">closes
	    customers' accounts</a>, which implies confiscating their
	  money, if they return too many defective products.
	</p>
	<p>
	  The company refuses even to discuss why.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon threatens to cut off customers if they return things more than
	  occasionally.  Amazon's customers nominally have the right to return
	  merchandise &mdash; <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8mde/amazon-banning-customers-for-returns">unless they exercise that right</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	  The strange irony of the article is that it is totally defeatist.  It
	  shows why we need to defeat Amazon, but assumes that that is
	  impossible.  It shows becoming dependent on Amazon is dangerous
	  and then refuses to believe people could ever refuse.
	</p>
	<p>
	  You can't win by being defeatist.  You can win by telling Amazon to
	  drop dead.
	</p>
	<p>
	  I have never bought anything from Amazon.  And I never will.  Amazon
	  knows my name because a friend, believing this was helpful, decided to
	  get something for me and <em>told Amazon to send it to my address</em>, an
	  act which made me feel violated.  I hope nothing like that will ever
	  happen again.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="censorship">Censorship</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	Amazon and
	Google <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/1/17308508/amazon-web-services-signal-domain-fronting-ban-response">have
	  cut off domain-fronting</a>, a feature
	used to
	enable people in tyrannical countries to reach
	communication systems that are banned there.
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon has
	  <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/inside-the-mpaa-netflix-amazon-global-anti-piracy-alliance-170918/">joined
	    with the MPAA</a> to campaign for repression of sharing on
	  the net.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon cut off service to Wikileaks, claiming that <a
								href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-knocked-off-net-dns-everydns">whistleblowing
	    violates its terms of service</a>.  It had no need to go
	  to court to prove this, because if you rent a server from
	  Amazon, you have no enforcible legal right to use it.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon stopped distribution of an
	  ebook <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/amazon-ebook-manipulate-kindle-rankings">that
	    exposed how ebook bestseller lists can be manipulated</a>
	  (and are therefore meaningless).
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="snooping">Snooping</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  The Amazon Echo seems to have
	  a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Echo#Software_updates">universal
	    back door</a>, which means that Amazon could convert it
	  into full-time listening device at any time.
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Since Amazon requires customers to identify themselves,
	  it knows what each one has bought.  That in itself is
	  unacceptable, especially for books.  I pay for books with
	  cash only, and do not identify myself to any bookseller
	  that takes note of which books I bought.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  The Kindle Swindle informs Amazon when the user reads books
	  that didn't come from Amazon.  It also tells Amazon which pages
	  each user reads.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  The Amazon "Smart" TV
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/nov/09/amazon-echo-smart-tv-watching-listening-surveillance">is
	    watching and listening all the time</a>.</p>
	<p>
	  Emo Phillips once made this joke: The other day a woman came up
	  to me and said, "Didn't I see you on television?" I said, "I
	  don't know. You can't see out the other way." Evidently Amazon
	  has made that joke obsolete.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  The Amazon Echo Dot is designed
	  to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/experts-say-keep-amazons-alexa-away-from-your-kids/">accustom
	    children to surveillance-based marketing</a> from a young age.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon is in such a position of surveillance that it
	  can <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/amazon-selling-machine/574045/">exert
	    substantial control</a> over people's activities.
	</p>
	<p>
	  This is dangerous, and we should not allow Amazon to continue to track
	  people as it does.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  <a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">Facebook</a>
	  made <a href="https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148">a
	    secret deal</a> with Amazon to give Amazon access to
	  Facebook's data about users.  A plague on both of
	  those companies!
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon and Google want "smart" gadgets
	  to <a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/your-smart-light-can-tell-amazon-and-google-when-you-go-to-bed">report
	    all activity to them</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	  In other words, if you have a "smart" (read "spy")
	  lightbulb with that proposed feature, and tell an Amazon
	  or Google listening device about it, thenceforth any
	  time you switched it on or off <em>no matter how</em>,
	  it would send a report to Amazon or Google.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Even today, the only way to make "smart" products safe
	  is to ensure they cannot connect to anyone else's
	  systems.
	</p>
      </li>
      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon keeps Alexa recordings and transcripts
	  <a href="
		   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/amazon-confirms-it-keeps-your-alexa-recordings-basically-forever/">
	    indefinitely.
	  </a>
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>*Amazon’s Ring Planned Neighborhood "Watch Lists" <a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/11/26/amazon-ring-home-security-facial-recognition/">Built on Facial Recognition</a>.*</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>Amazon <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data">gets access to video from Ring devices</a>.</p>

	<p>This was highlighted by the fact that some Ring employees who were authorized to look at the videos used that access for personal motives and were fired.  There will always be employees who do this, and with Ring the uniformed thugs often can do it too, which is far more dangerous.</p>
      </li>


    </ul>

    <h3 id="exploiting">Exploiting workers mercilessly</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	Revealed: Amazon Employees Are
	<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/02/revealed-amazon-employees-suffer-after-workplace-injuries">Left
	  to Suffer After Workplace Injuries</a>.
      </li>

      <li>
	Amazon warehouse workers say they are
	<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/05/hate-lugging-cat-litter-dont-make-us-amazon-warehouse-workers-do-it">forced
	  to speed up and ignore safety rules</a>.
      </li>

      <li>
	Amazon seems to organize some of its warehouse workers to say good
	things about their
	work. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/23/amazon-fc-ambassadors-twitter-working-conditions">Remarkably
	  similar good things.</a>
	<p>
	  Is Amazon paying them? Threatening them?
      </li>
      <li>
	Hello,
	Alexa, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos">were
	  you made in a Chinese sweatshop</a>?
      </li>

      <li>
	Working in an Amazon warehouse is like being in prison
	<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-like-prison-where-workers-used-pee-bottle-2018-4?r=UK&IR=T">with a sentence of
	  hard and hurried labor</a>.
	<p>
	  The workers don't have breaks even enough to go to the toilet.
      </li>

      <li>
	The workers in Amazon's warehouses are so
	remote-controlled that they are effectively
	<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/14/amazon-worker-cage-staff">robots
	  human brains inside</a>.
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon Workers Sleep in Tents Near Firm's Scottish Depot
	  <a href="http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2016/12/amazon-workers-sleep-in-tents-near-scottish-depot-avoid-travel-costs/">to
	    Avoid Travel Costs</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon works its warehouse staff to the point of
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/31/amazon-accused-of-treating-uk-warehouse-staff-like-robots">sickness
	    and even death</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  When workers at Amazon are injured, Amazon
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-workers-left-to-suffer-after-warehouse-injuries">shafts
	    them</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's shipping in the US is
	  <a
	     href="https://www.octothorp.org/pipermail/blind-democracy/2011-November/066306.html">done
	    in a sweatshop</a> with paramedics
	  standing by for workers who
	  <a href="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917,0,7937001,full.story">pass
	    out from the heat</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Workers in an Amazon warehouse and shipping center walk all day
	  under the orders of a computer, and are
	  <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/7/i_was_a_warehouse_wage_slave">forbidden
	    even to speak to each other</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  A stress expert, looking at an undercover report about an Amazon
	  warehouse, says
	  <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598">
	    these conditions make physical and mental illness
	    more likely</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Working for Amazon makes staff <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/18/amazon-regime-making-british-staff-physically-and-mentally-ill-says-union">physically and mentally ill.</a>
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon pressures its "self-employed" delivery drivers to
	  drive without seat belts;
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/13/help-amazon-driver-hot-foot-it-to-shops">they
	    aren't given time to go to the toilet</a> so they have to
	  piss and defacate in the car.
	</p>
	<p>
	  This is perhaps not as bad for the individual as being
	  unemployed, which is what they will become when Amazon
	  gets driverless delivery vans.  But that does not make it
	  acceptable.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon pays Mechanical Turk workers
	  <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-unknown-poorly-paid-labor-force-powering-academic-research">
	    as little as 2 dollars an
	    hour</a>,
	  making the excuse that they are "independent contractors".
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  <a
	     href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html">More
	    on the horrible treatment</a> of its workers.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  When James Bloodworth <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/11/hired-six-months-undercover-in-low-wage-britain-zero-hours-review-james-bloodworth">investigated the Amazon warehouse</a> by working in
	  it, he found that no workers lasted the 9 months required to become
	  regular employees.
	<p>
	  It's not enough for the workers to do their jobs; they are also required
	  to spout the ideology of devotion to the company.
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  As of 2018, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-workers-rely-on-food-stamps-24ab86dd6495/">1/3 of Amazon employees in Arizona</a> get food stamps, their
	  pay is so low.  In some other states, it's only 1/9 that get food
	  stamps.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Amazon's office workers are better paid but they have to work 80 hours
	  a week.  That's even more time than I spend volunteering!
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/08/amazon-jeff-bezos-unionize-working-conditions">Only
	    a union</a> could stop Amazon's persistent mistreatment of its
	  workers.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	Someone with very little will-power
	has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/12/shopping-habits-amazon-alexa">decided
	  to resist Amazon</a> because of how it underpays workers.
      </li>

      <li>
	<p><a href="https://medium.com/s/powertrip/confessions-of-a-u-s-postal-worker-we-deliver-amazon-packages-until-we-drop-dead-a6e96f125126">US Postal Service workers deliver lots of packages for Amazon, especially on Sundays</a>.  You can imagine how they are mistreated: some "part time" workers have to go weeks without a day off.  The speedup is so intense that following the official safety procedures is not feasible.</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	Amazon <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#13_September_2019_(Amazon_responsability)">doesn't take responsibility</a> for those problems.
      </li>

    </ul>


    <h3 id="publishing">Shafting others in the publishing world</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon squeezes small publishers.  For instance, <a
							      href="http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2012/02/amazon-removes-kindle-versions-of-ipg-books-after-distributor-declines-to-change-selling-terms/">Amazon cut off Swindle sales for an independent book distributor in
	    order to press for bigger discounts.</a> (The article ends by
	  promoting ebooks for another platform, the Shnook from Barnes and
	  Noble.  While that company is not as nasty to small publishers, its
	  ebooks do violate your freedom in most of the same ways.)
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon doesn't just compete with independent book stores, <a
								       href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/opinion/amazons-jungle-logic.html?_r=3&amp;pagewanted=all">
	    it arrogantly seeks to destroy them.</a> Independent book stores urge
	  people <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/12-3">not
	    to buy from Amazon</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon appears to treat self-published authors well, but it can <a
									     href="http://www.jimchines.com/2012/02/amazon-ebook-price/">unilaterally
	    cut the price of their books.</a> And when it does, the
	  authors are the ones who lose.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon is
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/02/amazon-pay-self-published-authors-per-page-read-kindle">lowering
	    the pay for short self-published works</a> by
	  changing to pay per page read (sometimes as low as $0.006 per
	  page).
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon is bad for
	  <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/17/140217fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all">
	    books and writing</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon is
	  <a
	     href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/10/technology/writers-feel-an-amazon-hachette-spat.html">demonstrating
	    its dangerous power</a>
	  by punishing one publisher with all sorts of unofficial
	  discouragements to buy.
	</p>
	<p>
	  We should not allow any bookstore to be as big as Amazon.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's
	  <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-its-battle-against-hachette/">
	    hardball tactics against a publisher</a> show its
	  dangerous power.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Not that Hachette deserves any sympathy.  The point is that we need to
	  break Amazon's power.
	</p>
      </li>


    </ul>

    <h3 id="taxes">Dodging taxes</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  At least 10% of Amazon's success is due to
	  <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/04/25/amazons_hypocritical_tax_scheme_how_exploiting_a_massive_loophole_helped_it_destroy_bookstores/">
	    avoiding the taxes that physical book stores pay</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2012/nov/09/how-to-kick-amazon-habit">tax
	    avoidance</a> means it sucks money out of your country's economy.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon
	  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/21/amazon-forces-publishers-pay-vat-ebook">
	    charges publishers</a> for 20% sales tax in the UK
	  even though the tax it pays is 3%.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  UK independent bookstores condemn Amazon for
	  <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/20/high-street-shops-amazon-tax">not
	    paying taxes</a> as they do.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon reorganized its EU structure in 2015 so it will pay
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-uk-business-paid-119m-tax-last-year">a little tax</a> on its sales to EU countries, but not much.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon bullied Seattle into retracting a tax increase by
	  threatening to abandon expansion plans there.  Seattle
	  caved in, but Amazon has
	  <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-backs-massive-seattle-office-tower-questions-swirl-growth-plans/">cancelled
	    the plans anyway</a>.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Amazon is not merely an snooping abusive monopolist.  It
	  is a cheating snooping abusive monopolist.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="vendors">Vendors</h3>

    <ul>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon sometimes chooses an expensive vendor by default
	  &mdash; when the
	  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/21/amazon-makes-customers-pay-more-for-popular-products-study-claims">vendor
	    pays for this preference</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

    <h3 id="other">Other reasons</h3>

    <ul>
      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon is creating subsidiaries that act like "third-party"
	  sellers, to
	  <a href="https://qz.com/1414238/secret-amazon-brands-are-quietly-taking-over-amazon-com/
		   ">compete with the real third-party sellers</a>.
	<p>
	  This is one more example of how Amazon cooperates with
	  various other parties so as to get more power, then betrays
	  them.  Amazon has done wrong to readers, authors,
	  bookstores, as well as its workers.  And now to the
	  companies that accepted it as a nearly-monopolistic
	  market.</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon supports Breitbart, the right-wing extremist site, by
	  <a href="http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/02/337k-amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-stop-advertising-breitbart/">advertising
	    there</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  Amazon in Germany
	  <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html">hired
	    "security" guards from a company of Nazi
	    sympathizers</a> to repress foreign workers.  Reporters
	  came to cover this, and the guards tried to arrest them
	  and take their cameras.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  After a bug in software Amazon's servers used caused
	  Amazon to sell many products for one penny, Amazon takes
	  no responsibility and
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/15/amazon-sellers-discounted-glitch-pricing">
	    dumped the loss on the sellers</a>.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/node/11473">
	    Amazon was a member of ALEC.</a> ALEC is the right-wing lobbying group
	  that <a
		  href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#2_May_2012_%28ALEC%29">
	    promotes voter-suppression laws</a> and "shoot first" laws, as well as
	  attacks against wages and working conditions in the US.
	</p>
	<p>
	  Amazon quit ALEC after public pressure in May 2012, but I am sure it
	  still supports the same nasty policies and is waiting for a new tool
	  to achieve them.
	</p>
      </li>

      <li>
	<p>
	  A study found that people who read novels on the Amazon
	  Swindle
	  <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation">remember
	    less</a> of the the events in the novel.
	</p>
      </li>

    </ul>

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